For months now, top U.S. military commanders have been trumpeting the growing strength of Iraq’s 559,397-strong security forces, trained and armed by the U.S. military at a cost of $20.4 billion.

Former US Special Forces operator fights ISIS in Iraq. Benjamin Hall reports. ... Shumock has called the dusty, makeshift, camp surrounded on three sides by ISIS, for a year.

When they learned a hostage’s life was in danger, two battalions of the 1st Iraqi Special Operations Forces Brigade, along with about 25 U.S. advisors, swung into action, pulling into the area ...

Months Of Protests Roil Iraq's Oil Capital Basra Iraqis have been protesting ... dart through the dusty streets. Some are the children of special forces or paramilitary fighters among the ...

Thirty-one U.S. troops were killed in a desert helicopter crash and six more died in insurgent attacks Wednesday on the deadliest day for American forces since they led the invasion of Iraq in ...

The Nujaba militia is one example of the way Iran is seeking to expand its Shi’ite influence in Iraq and across the wider region. In the 1980s, Shi’ite-dominated Iran was at war with Iraq ...